Should You Defrag an SSD?

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Defragmenting an SSD using two technologies developed for this purpose by O&O may make tuner hearts beat faster, but if we get down to earth, we find that there is no real benefit associated with it. It is a consolation that O&O Defrag trims SSDs, which Windows' own defragmenter can also do (possible since Windows 8; under Windows 11 the on-board tool dfrgui.exe, which has the same name, still has it). Trimming a flash drive doesn't require a full-fledged defrag solution. This can also be done using dfrgui.exe or (for users who like to play or have programming ambitions) a batch/PowerShell script. The charm of O&O Defrag lies elsewhere: trimming is a nice accessory; above all, if you use a hard disk, service it with the undeniably useful, multifaceted defragmentation. This increases the pace.
Your PC works faster than with the best possible defragmented HDD if you operate it with an SSD.

We already measured the previous version O&O Defrag 25 in this context with a SATA 3 SSD and O&O Defrag 26 didn't bring any increase in speed beyond the measurement inaccuracy; the AS SSD benchmark scores remained practically the same.

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